Fortunately, such cases in Rhode Island are more the exception than the rule.

Perhaps a course in typewriting might be regarded as the exception which proves the rule.

Those who transfer their membership are no exception to the rule.

If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.

Monks, as a rule, were laymen, nor at the outset was the abbot any exception.

One exception to this rule was the Italian Cannone da 90 / 53 which was highly effective when mounted on trucks, a fit known as the " autocannoni da 90 / 53 ".

Resumed Ottomans rule in Aegina and the Morea was confirmed in the Treaty of Passarowitz, and they retained control of the island with the exception of a short-lived Russian occupation, until the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.

The only exception to this rule is New Year's Day, in which case alcohol sales are permitted until 4 a. m. Alcohol sale was likewise banned on Sundays until 12p. m., and on Dec. 25 from 12 a. m. until 12 p. m, until a repeal in late 2010.

The exception to this rule is where the waste is subject to another treaty that does not take away from the Basel Convention.

Sometimes in series with this rule an exception is made for religious materials such as the Bible, Torah or Qur ' an.

A first exception to this rule arose in an 1852 case by New York's highest court, Thomas v. Winchester, which held that mislabeling a poison as an innocuous herb, and then selling the mislabeled poison through a dealer who would be expected to resell it, put " human life in imminent danger.

" Thomas used this as a reason to create an exception to the " privity " rule.

The exception to this rule is in the state of Goa, where a Portuguese uniform civil code is in place, in which all religions have a common law regarding marriages, divorces and adoption.

An exception to this may be made in games with fixed partnerships, in which it may be felt that the partner ( s ) of the person who broke a rule should also not benefit.

) The exception to this alms rule is when monks and nuns have seen, heard or known that animal ( s ) have been specifically killed to feed the alms-seeker, in which case consumption of such meat would be karmically negative.

One notable exception to this rule is if the kicking team on a 3rd down punt play is penalized before the kick occurs: the receiving team may not decline the penalty and take over on downs.

A notable exception to this rule is the Fourth of July.

An exception to this rule occurs if one side has called a witness, but it is either understood, or soon becomes plain, that the witness is hostile to the questioner's side of the controversy.

An exception to the rule was the British Army.

Orchestral parts rarely demand the double bass exceed a two-octave range ( an example of an exception to this rule is Orff's Carmina Burana, which calls for three octaves and a perfect fourth ).

The only exception to this rule is if a player receives a 5th non-victory point progress card on his or her turn, in which case he or she has the option of playing any one of the five progress cards in his or her hand during the turn, thus bringing the progress card count back down to four.

A 2012 study of gravitational microlensing data collected between 2002 and 2007 concludes the proportion of stars with planets is much higher and estimates an average of 1. 6 planets orbiting between 0. 5 – 10 AU per star in the Milky Way Galaxy, the authors of this study conclude " that stars are orbited by planets as a rule, rather than the exception.

The European Court of Human Rights did not rule upon the right to life until 1995, when in McCann v. United Kingdom it ruled that the exception contained in the second paragraph do not constitute situations when it is permitted to kill, but situations where it is permitted to use force which might result in the deprivation of life.

His school was the first of the ancient Greek philosophical schools to admit women as a rule rather than an exception.

It seems to me improbable that this effort to get at the structure of matter should be an exception to this rule.

The exception was an Iron Mountain settler named William Lewis.

Felix was the exception.

Mahayana Buddhism was no exception to these prevailing magical concepts.

In the popular Chinese mind, Ch'an ( Zen ) was no exception to the ideas of coarse magic that dominated.

The names were abandoned in Latin, which instead referred to the letters by adding a vowel ( usually e ) before or after the consonant ( the exception is zeta, which was retained from Greek ).

Those who have dealings with this book usually come to an unpleasant end, and Alhazred was no exception.

Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha ( Treasury of Amara ), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the " Tripartite ".

This was almost inevitable since, with the notable exception of the generals ( strategoi ), each office could be held by the same person only once.

The only exception was the boule or council of 500.

His mind was entirely absorbed in the labors of his studio, and, with the exception of his journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts of Italy, he never quit Rome.

In 1820 the city wall was torn down, with the exception of the individual towers and gates, and the defensive ditches were filled in.

In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

The Barony of Grey of Codnor was an exception as the original claim had been submitted prior to these recommendations being made to the Sovereign.

The most notable exception was the XG-1 lightgun, which came bundled with the Atari XE Game System.

Much that happened between Nora and Torvald happened to Laura and her husband, Victor, with the most important exception being the forged signature that was the basis of Nora's loan.

The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.

Indifference was also credited as an exception.

One notable Manifesto Group exception was its secretary, future Defence Secretary George Robertson, who was the only officer to remain.